State Actions to Reform Inmate Calling Services Rates – This panel focused on issues addressed by states that have undertaken ICS rate reform. In particular, the panel explored how rates have been set within those states, what the reform process has been, and how existing contracts and site commissions have been taken into account. The panel also considered concerns that have arisen with disability-related calling and how states are addressing those challenges.

Moderator:Commissioner John Burke, Chair, NARUC Committee on Telecommunications & Vermont Public Service Board

Providing Inmate Calling Services – This panel considered how ICS is evolving to drive efficiencies while providing service responsive to the unique needs of correctional facilities. This panel explored the costs of providing service, including costs that may apply individually or be shared among facilities as well as how costs vary across type and size of correctional facilities.

We remind the public that presentations to decision-making personnel that go to the merits of the Commission’s pending permit-but-disclose proceeding in Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services, WC Docket No. 12-375, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 27 FCC Rcd 16629-30 (2012), must comply with the Commission’s ex parte rules. See 47 C.F.R. § 1.1200 et seq. Interested parties are also invited to submit written ex parte presentations in this public docket.

Please note: all public remarks made at the workshop will be transcribed and entered into the record for this proceeding. Thus, it is not necessary for speakers making public remarks at the workshop to submit filings in compliance with the Commission's ex parte rules.

For additional information about the Workshop, please contact Gregory Haledjian of the Wireline Competition Bureau, at (202) 418-7440 or gregory.haledjian@fcc.gov. For media inquiries, contact Mark Wigfield, 202-418-0253, or mark.wigfield@fcc.gov.

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